"We enthusiastically support Secretary Coffman's recommendation that Colorado move to paper ballots," said Myriah Conroy, a plaintiff in the Colorado voters' 2006 lawsuit. "We are pleased that Secretary Coffman has recommended that Colorado join with California, Florida, Michigan, and Ohio in rejecting the widely discredited DRE voting systems. DRE computerized voting systems are easily hacked and compromised, and have a history of operational problems that have disrupted elections across the country. For that reason we believe that the Secretary should support electronic ballot-marking devices, not DRE computerized voting machines, to accommodate voters with disabilities. Nonetheless, the Secretary's decision to support paper ballots represents a major milestone on the path to election integrity in Colorado," said Conroy.

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Quote: ...the bill also provides $100 million for audits, where 3 percent of all paper ballots --- including absentee and early voting --- would be hand-counted to verify the electronic count before winners would be certified.

This audit design is wrong. We went through the problems with fixed percent audits over and over in the struggle for rationality in HR 811.

Here it is again!

Why?

Holt doesn't understand? No; he does know something about statistics; didn't he once consider a tiered audit? - better if not the best choice.

Congress members and staff too dumb to follow the logic? I don't believe that. The record is pretty clear; they seem to want a bill with scraps to toss to all the contending interests not a sysnthesis that would be good for the country.

Wiggling for political horse-trading advantage? I could believe that; but, such skullduggery. usually just reprehensible, is profoundly undemocratic in the context of voting integrity...

I suppose it's hopeless to point out that opscan systems are subject to error, breakdown and subversion...and that HCPB is the only way we'll ever approach trustworthy elections.

Even the idea that voting for President should be done separately with HCPB is too sensible to have a chance in this theater of gibberish Holt presides over.